Sri Lanka: The JVP/NPP government moves to cut social welfare
The attack on benefits for the poor is part of unprecedented attacks on living standards, as the government imposes the austerity measures demanded by the IMF.
Saman Gunadasa•
In the face of lawsuits filed by families of flood victims
Camp Mystic announces plans to reopen with new flood precautions as FEMA chief steps down
The lawsuits allege that camp management was long aware of the risk of flooding at the camp and failed to take action to save the lives of the 25 children who died during the July flood.
Alex Findijs•
Timeline of the Hillsborough disaster and cover-up as it unfolded (1989-2025)
Over 36 years, an orchestrated cover-up was organised by Britain’s ruling elite to ensure that no-one was ever brought to justice over the deaths of 97 Liverpool Football Club supporters.
Robert Stevens•
Final investigation into 97 deaths at Hillsborough stadium caps decades-long cover-up
The Liverpool supporters were crushed and suffocated to death after police gave the order to open an egress gate just before the kick-off of an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989. Thousands of fans were directed into two already dangerously overcrowded pens.
Robert Stevens•
Tom Hall•
Barış Demir•
Jerry White•
Steve James•
Jean Shaoul•
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May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
Nick Beams•
Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
Thomas Scripps•
The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
David Walsh•
The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Eric London•
Joseph Scalice•
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